Word: blunderbuss
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...enemy. "I am a British citizen and will remain one," says Billy Hutchinson, leader and chief negotiator of the Progressive Unionists. "But I have the guts to face Sinn Fein." For his pains he has been called a traitor to unionism by the likes of Ian Paisley, the blunderbuss leader who has made a career of fanning hatred in the North of Ireland and who refused to participate in the talks. Paisley's recalcitrance left him with no role other than leading a pathetic midnight protest outside the gates of the final negotiations and, with luck, a permanent position...
...into a long decline on many campuses, which was made worse by the buffoonery and outright nonsense of some of the field's best-known advocates. At City College, part of the City University of New York, for example, former black-studies chairman Leonard Jeffries became notorious for his blunderbuss attacks on Jews and his ludicrous theory classifying blacks as "sun people" and whites as "ice people." Other so-called Afrocentric scholars maintained that the ancient civilization of Egypt invented airplanes and electricity thousands of years ago. Small wonder black studies sometimes became a laughingstock...
Known for his acid sense of humor, Armey has used his seat in the House as a duck blind from which to take potshots at the Administration. His weapon of choice is the rhetorical blunderbuss. The Clinton presidency is not merely flawed; it is a "train wreck." The health plan was not simply misguided; it amounted to a "Dr. Kevorkian prescription." And the Congressional Budget Office is not just a poor source of economic data; basing conclusions on its figures is "like relying on the Flintstones for an understanding of the Stone...
...were given credit for shooting down the first Japanese aircraft of the war. One of our old blunderbuss antiaircraft guns lined up one of the planes and hit him. A bomb hit near two destroyers in dry dock. Their seams opened % up, their oil drained out and caught fire, their magazines went off. They were cremated...
During the debate on granting the President authority to use force against Iraq, Gerald B.H. Solomon, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, lambasted antiwar protesters. They are, Solomon intoned, "unshaven, shaggy-haired, drug-culture poor excuses for Americans." Then Solomon aimed his rhetorical blunderbuss at Bryant Gumbel, of NBC's Today show, who had expressed surprise at polls showing that most Americans felt the government was telling the press all they needed to know about the war. Quoth Solomon: "Evidently, ((Gumbel)) can't bear the idea of an American victory. He wants another American humiliation, another Vietnam...